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Elon Musk: Looking good for robotaxis in Austin next month. · Elon Musk Thinking

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  Speaker 1: Is that is that a real possibility and then not
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  Speaker 1: too distant future meet Of course, very different I don't
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  Speaker 1: need to tell you than California when it comes to regulation.
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  Speaker 1: They don't really have much here in terms of dealing
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  Speaker 1: with autonomous but it's a different story in California.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but California is already approved way I am always
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  Speaker 2: been doing autonomus driving.
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  Speaker 1: Another there for a while. But do you need a
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  Speaker 1: separate approval.
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  Speaker 2: Or right now, the approval process is very haphazard and
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  Speaker 2: sort of state by state and sometimes city by city.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking in the Secretary of Transportation about that
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  Speaker 1: very fact a moment ago. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So it's going to be important to have a
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  Speaker 2: unified set of national regulations for self driving cars. Otherwise
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  Speaker 2: you're going to get into this weird situation where if
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  Speaker 2: you're driving from Maine to New York, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: go through ten different sets of regulations. Car is going
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  Speaker 2: to behave differently. It's not going to make any sense.
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  Speaker 2: So one set of regulations that just like there is
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  Speaker 2: for highway driving, that's what I think makes sense for
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  Speaker 2: the country as a whole. But my prediction is that
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  Speaker 2: probably by the end of next year, we'll have probably
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, if not,
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  Speaker 2: if not over a million Teslas doing self driving in
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  Speaker 2: the US.
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  Speaker 1: Those are not okay, what percentages those are going to be? Well,
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  Speaker 1: not the cyber cab you're just talking about on full
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  Speaker 1: self driving level four.
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  Speaker 2: Un supervised full self driving run. You do not need
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  Speaker 2: to pay attention.
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  Speaker 1: Right for me, if I own a Tesla and I
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  Speaker 1: have the software the capability.
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  Speaker 2: Of doing it, yes, right, But we'll have a model
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  Speaker 2: which is kind of like some combination of Uber and Airbnb.
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  Speaker 2: So if you, if you're a Tesla owner, you'll be
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  Speaker 2: able to add or subtract your car to the fleet.
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  Speaker 2: So just like an AIRB and B, you could like
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  Speaker 2: run out your spare bedroom or run out your house
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  Speaker 2: when you're not using it, and the same thing will
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  Speaker 2: be available for Tesla owners. So it's a way for
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  Speaker 2: Tesla owners to own revenue. Instead of having your car
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  Speaker 2: sit in the parking lot, your car could be earning money.
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  Speaker 1: Talked to you, and I talked about that a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago, which takes me back a bit because
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  Speaker 1: of course, I mean you remember twenty nineteen, you were
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  Speaker 1: talking about twenty twenty the introduction of autonomous And now
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  Speaker 1: you just introduced a fairly somewhat ambitious target. Why do
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  Speaker 1: you have the confidence now that and then what was it?
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  Speaker 1: In a year there'll be a million available?
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  Speaker 2: Well it might end of next year, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, right, I think that's I mean, these things
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  Speaker 2: happen slowly but then all at once, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a Peter Tiel has a book zero one. Once
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  Speaker 2: you make once you have a proof point, once you
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  Speaker 2: have it working, then scaling up is you know, just
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  Speaker 2: amount of time. So once it's working well in Austin,
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  Speaker 2: then you know, we'll make sure it works well in
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  Speaker 2: other cities. I mean there are obviously some unique cases
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  Speaker 2: like downtown New York, like you know if you're in
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  Speaker 2: but that's a highly unusual situation. Most cities in America
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  Speaker 2: are like Austin.
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  Speaker 1: So right, although you can go on full self driving
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  Speaker 1: right now in New York, I mean you can obviously
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  Speaker 1: have to sit there behind the wheel, but and it'll
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  Speaker 1: do it. Oh yeah, no, it'll it'll it'll navigate the traffic.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, even a test that you buy it right now,
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  Speaker 2: and the self driving just costs ninety nine dollars a month,
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  Speaker 2: will give you autonomous driving anywhere in the country right now.
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  Speaker 2: The question is when? When is it unsupervised? Right where
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  Speaker 2: that's that's where.
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  Speaker 1: Where you're sitting in the back, so to speak.
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  Speaker 2: Right, yes, where you're like asleep and a car you
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  Speaker 2: wake up at your destination.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: In order for that to be the case, we want
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  Speaker 2: the autonomous car to be much safer than a car
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  Speaker 2: driven by apost